Author: rainyday101
Rating: pg for now but it will most likely pg13 later on
Disclaimer: besides my cd collection, and my cat nos, I own nothing. This includes the Tribe and evrything affiliated with it.
Summary: while working on a project together jack starts to rethink his opinion of ram (ramjack) SLASH
a/n: wow sorry it took so long, i got writers block on the other series that i'm writing and it kind of trancended into this story. anyways the evil cult known as school has started up again, but have no fear im taking geography and since i have absolutly no intention whatsoever of paying attention in that class i will have time to write.
chapter 8: the truth and cuddly affection
Ram's face paled considerably and Jack nearly choked.
"Does Jay know?" He asked in a high pitched voice.
Ram looked positivly terrified now. Everyone else was looking at the two boys as if worried for thier sanity.
"Why would I tell Jay?" Daryn asked.
Ram spoke up in a suprisingly calm voice considering how completly not calm he looked. "Because Ved is Jays brother, we all thought that he was dead."
Jack had mixed feelings. On the one hand he really did like Ram and wanted to give him the benifet of the doubt, but in his techno days Ram had done a lot of horrible things, and everyone knew that there had been tension between Ram and Ved when Jay had left.
Ram looked Jack sqaure in his eyes, and as if reading his mind answered his unspoken question. "I didn't have anything to do with Ved's disapearence, that was Mega."
Jack felt as if a huge weight had been lifted off his chest. Ram was not a good lyer, and he had looked sincere so Jack knew that he was telling the truth. Still the thought of how Jay would react kept him from feeling to relieved, because even though the blond would undoubtably be thrilled that his brother was alive, it made everything a lot more complicated then it had been a few minutes ago.
Jay had been devastated when he had found out about his brothers death, and he was only just learning to accept it. This would kill Jay, who always took the weight of the world on his shoulders, to find out that his brother was alive and he had just accepted techno records as fact instead of questioning it.
Still it had to happen sooner or later and in this case sooner was probably better. "Who's going to tell him?" Everyone looked at Jack in suprise like they hadn't really thought that far ahead.
"I will."
Slade of course, Jack was almost certain that Slade had no self preservation instinct at all. After all he was dating Ebony, which showed a serious lack of good judgement. On the other hand Slade really was the best candidate, Daryl had all the tact of a circus clown, Ruby would ask to many questions, Ram would get himself killed, and Jack never knew when to shut up and chances are he would say something stupendously stupid.
Slade was good at getting people to see things his way, if him getting Ram walking was anything to go by.
Everybody looked relieved that they wouldn't be the one who had to tell Jay. Daryl went off to do whatever it was that he did, and Ruby left to try and see Ved.
Ram sat down heavily on Jacks bed, completly devoid of his usual grace. For a boy who had spent the last few years of his life in a wheelchair, Ram was suprisingly agile and was more graceful then any guy had any right to be, so to see him slouching with a defeated air was rather scary.
Jack sat down next to him and cautiously asked what was wrong.
"Ved and I had our problems, but he was still my friend-as much as anyone is my friend in any case. Anyways Ved's girlfriend-Chloe I think- got lost in an early version of paradise, Ved thought that i had done it on purpose, because I didn't like the idea of him dating a vert, so he challenged me to a virtuel duel. If he won then I would do what I could to find Chloe, and if I won he would be deleted."
Jack got a horrified look on his face and Ram quickly continued.
"I wasn't actualy going to do it, I was just trying to prove a point. Mega was suposed to watch over the whole thing to make sure no one got hurt but he messed with the settings so that everything that happened to Ved in virtuality, happened to him in the real world. He said it was an accident but it's impossible, I checked over everything myself before we went in, and it was all working fine. I have more security precations then I could possibaly ever need regarding virtual safety, all thats supposed to happen is a small electracel shock when you get hurt, not enough to seriously injure anyone, even a baby would be okay in it. Mega had to shut down the safety controls on Ved's system."
"Why would he want to kill Ved?"
"I don't know."
After that they sat quietly, slowly inching closer to each other until thier thighs were pressed together. They sat like that for the rest of the night, silently supporting each other and they finaly fell asleep curled together as the sun was coming up.
"Awwwww how adorable!"
Jack groggily opened his eyes and slowly became aware of the fact that he was not alone in bed. 'What the...' he thought to himself until he rembered the events of the night before.
He didn't have to long to dwell on those thoughts though as Ruby, apparently deciding that her precense wasnt clear enough, spoke up again. "And here I thought that you two had only just started kissing, already sleeping together, tsk, tsk, Jacky."
Jack just rolled his eyes knowing that anything he said would just get him into more trouble. He considered asking Ruby how the family reunion between Jay, and Ved had gone, but decided that it would probably be better if he asked Slade.
As long as Jay was willing to listen to Ram's side of the story then Jack was happy, even if having yet another former techno here was a bit unsettleing. Liberty was beginning to seem a bit like the premiere hideout for all those who had a grudge against Mega.
Instead he settled on the safer option of getting Ruby out of the room. "Did you actualy want something, or did you just want to torture me a bit more." Ruby laughed.
"It's ten o clock, I thought that you might be hungry."
"Are you serious?"
"Yup, whatever you boys did last night must have really worn you out."
Ruby tried and failed to keep a straight face.
"Where...?"
Great now Ram was awake to, and Jack really didn't know how Ram was going to react to waking up next to Jack, not to mention the fact that Ruby was in the room. Then again for someone who hadn't wanted the general population knowing about who he kissed, he had been remarkably calm when Ruby and Slade had found out, only showing mild vindictivness towards Ruby and Jack was fairly certain that, that had more to do with her laughing, then her walking in on them.
Of course this only added to the mounting evidence that Ram actualy liked him, So he was going to stick to his policy of leaving potentialy dangerous things alone.
It had worked so far in any case.
In one of her better moments Ruby quietly left the room closing the door behind her. "Umm, you fell asleep in my room last night."
Ram had an adorably sleepy, innocent, look on his face that completely contradicted how he usualy looked.
"Oh, sorry."
"That's okay."
It was more then okay, Jack had always liked having someone to sleep with, he slept better that way, and apparently when Ram was sleeping he was rather cuddly, which was something that Jack definatly wasnt going to object to.